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...Orleans newspapers and many once-loyal do-gooders. With the segregation issue thrust at him, Morrison proclaimed that he was a better segregationist than Davis (who, he claimed, once ran an "integrated" nightclub in California), spent too much time criticizing Songwriter Davis' risque compositions (Red Nightgown Blues, Organ Grinder Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jambalaya | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...Romeo and Juliet, as for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, night is blissful and day abhorrent. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" As Juliet turns on her bedroom light, the odylic moment is underlined by some light tracery on a flute. Juliet appears in a white nightgown, sinks on her knees, spreads her elbows on the balcony to support her head, and lets the light catch her soft, blond tresses--all girlishly, but never awkwardly. The rest of the scene is magic. As Easton plays it, he works himself up until he all but shouts, "And thou...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into striking out for several bars at a brisk clip all his own. The costumes matched the sets: an indeterminate sausage-roll garment for ample Soprano Rysanek, an orange-colored Raggedy Ann wig for Soprano Simionato. a short man's nightgown for the Pharaoh. The company's acting was at best competent, at worst ludicrous, especially Soprano Rysanek's lurching, bosom-clutching assault on the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Raggedy Ann in Aïda | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Beside Loujean's bed was a telephone extension. Clutching her crimsoning nightgown she dialed the operator, gasped: "Please help me! Call the police! We're being murdered here!" Eight-year-old Melvin, swallowing his fright, took the phone from the trembling hand. Said he, manfully: "Tell the police I'll be waiting downstairs outside for them." Counseled the operator: "No. Stay inside. Stay by your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAMILIES: Intruder in the Night | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...checking up on the activities of an old maid and her father. Both father and daughter were born under the sign of French avarice. The girl whines and begs for money, the father accuses her of hoarding what he gives her. One night he dashes barefoot and in his nightgown into the kitchen, climbs a chair and looks at the bar of soap on a high shelf. No doubt about it, "she had cut off a large piece, almost a good third." So now he had her -"like the butter last year, and the shoe polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many-Tentacled Evasions | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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